The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-28, 398 days ago. Richland County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-08-28 near Walcott.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Dakota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-06-28, around Breckenridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Richland County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 81 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 2.8 a year before that.
6 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2018-08-31. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 9 of the 39 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Wahpeton -- 7 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Walcott (5), Hankinson (5), Christine (4) and Fairmount (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Wyndmere, Barney, Dwight, Galchutt, Leonard, Colfax, Lidgerwood, Mooreton and Great Bend on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wahpeton | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Christine | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Wyndmere | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Hankinson | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 4 Nw Wahpeton | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 35 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). July is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 14 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Breckenridge. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-28 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-19 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-08-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-10 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-25 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2021-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Ransom County (25 hail days), Sargent County (25), Cass County (60), Wilkin County, Minnesota (20) and Clay County, Minnesota (37). Richland County sits in between.
Ransom County · Sargent County · Cass County · Wilkin County, Minnesota · Clay County, Minnesota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Richland County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.